Coach & Equipment Mfg. Corp

Employee Size

51-200

Organization Type

Privately Held

Headquarters

Penn Yan, NY

Founded

1948

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Family-owned and building buses since 1948, Coach & Equipment Mfg. Corp. makes midsize buses for municipal, senior-living, and higher-education transportation from its Penn Yan, New York facility. The company’s roots reach back to 1870s wagon and carriage building, while its present-day operation combines family management with an 85,000-square-foot plant capable of producing customized buses in more than 400 configurations. Coach & Equipment is ISO 9001:2015 certified, Ford QVM certified, and known for retaining school-bus safety standards in its shuttle-bus designs.

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